Is there a New March of the Makers in the USA?
In this article from the BBC, Linda Yueh considers some of the factors driving a recovery in manufacturing output, investment and jobs in the United States.
Balancing out Good and Bad Deflation
Mark Carney says that a period of low inflation – even deflation – propelled by falling oil prices would be "unambiguously good" for the economy. How do we reconcile this with the textbook position...
Centre for Cities- database and economy resources
Centre for Cities is an independent organisation that conducts research on change in city life and economy. It has a great website that will be of real use to economics teachers.
The Nationwide House Price Premier League
The Champion's League and the Premier League are hotting up as the soccer season moves full-steam into the final stanza. No one knows for sure who will claim the prizes at the end of this campaign
What is Game Theory?
Game theory is the mathematical study of decision-making, of conflict and strategy in social situations.
Lithuania's Brain Drain
This BBC news article looks at the de-population of Euro Area country Lithuania. According to the piece, "In the 25 years since the fall of Communism, Lithuania has lost one in five of its...
Unemployment falls as UK labour market expands
Fresh evidence today of the growing strength of the UK labour market in recent months
Crocodile tears for the poor
INEQUALITY is now a buzzword in Britain. Scarcely a week goes by without a new publication by an academic or journalist lamenting the levels of poverty facing swathes of the population. They are...
Growing fast and growing slow - an anatomy of economic growth
Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England has recently given a superb speech on the dynamic of economic growth.
Plain packaging for cigarettes
In January 2015, the UK government announced that the it had decided to bring forward the legislation for standardised packaging of cigarette packets before the end of this Parliament. A vote is...
Recent examples of corporate takeovers and mergers
This will be a regularly curated list of mergers and takeovers involving well-known businesses. We hope it will help students to find examples of acquisitions that can be explore and used in...
Snapchat Visits Ent Soc!
It was a thrill last week for my students who run Entrepreneurship Society to host a meeting with Evan Spiegel, the founder and CEO of messaging app Snapchat.
Dani Rodrik - Globalisation - the trade-offs
Dani Rodrik introduces 'The Globalisation Trilemma'. It shows how economics is a science of trade-offs - and the we can have too much globalisation
Joseph Stiglitz - Financial crisis as market failure
Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells how the financial crisis of 2008 was a perfect storm of market failure.
Fishing for perfect competition
In the early 1990s Kathryn Grady of Brandeis University went in search of prefect competition at Fulton Fish Market in downtown New York - what she found was quite different.
You can't outsource responsibility
Richard Freeman of Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that while you can outsource production, you cannot outsource responsibility.
Invisible hands working together
Juan Camilo Cárdenas of Universidad de los Andes describes his innovative use of experimental economics in real-life situations and how it helps us understand why people co-operate despite the...
Working more or less - technology and the work-life balance
In this short video, Juliet Schor of Boston College discusses the paradox that, despite gains in technology, many people aren't working less - instead they are working more. What does this mean for...
Why some countries grew rich
In this short video, Sureash Naidu of Columbia University shows how three interconnected forces have led some countries to grow rich and enjoy a standard of living today that would have been...
Swedish central bank uses negative interest rates to avoid deflation
The world's oldest central bank (the Swedish Riksbank) has chosen to move their policy interest rate into negative territory as part of a plan to avoid the Swedish economy falling into persistent...